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Blackberry CEO wants to bring the Blackberry experience to the iPhone. Just say no!

December 22, 2013 by David Johnson

Blackberry's quarterly conference call took place on Friday. I will try to avoid adjectives such as train wreck, or disasterous. But it is difficult to report on it without at least using the word, predictable. On paper, they lost $4.4B. That's more money than they have. Accounting is a funny business. My undestanding of it is that much of that is a non-writedown writedown of unsold inventory, literally, worth nothing. Every phone they build is a liability to the company. Now, they would like to bring that worthless experience to iOS and Android. You can here John Chen: Blackberry CEO, say it in his own words

 

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December 22, 2013 /David Johnson
Blackberry, John Chen, security, productivity, iPhone, iOS, Android, iMessage, NSA, BBM, Blackberry keyboard
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Smaller or lighter: the iPad dilemma

November 11, 2013 by David Johnson

2012 was the first year that Apple introduced two iPads at the same time. The fourth generation iPad was debuted alongside the iPad mini. There was no ambiguity between the two products. One was big and bold with all the power and features you could hope for in an iPad, the other was iPad light with slightly less functionality, and a lot less iPad. 

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November 11, 2013 /David Johnson
iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, big screen, productivity, portable, man purse, media tablet, retina mini, Macbook Air
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